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The commercial salmon trollers in the Pacific immediately cut the gills and eviscerate the carcass to prepare the salmon for quality at the dinner table. They are bled out and the gurry is is removed to prevent tainting the flesh. Immediately afterward the fish is iced down or better yet flash frozen and dipped in fresh water to encase the fish in an ice glaze. This insures safe consumption to the public of the fish. Our rules of fish cleaning stations is a dangerous action to the public. The holding of a fish in an ice filled cooler for hours exposes the flesh to gurry and fluids, bacteria and unnecessary spoilage. Someday a lawsuit will happen and a lot of finger pointing will happen and states regulations will be the cause.

I used a large plastic cutting board available at kitchen supply stores. A mixture of epoxy is applied and the board is through bolted above the water line. Stainless screws hold well in the cutting board and do not penetrate your hull below the water line. You can change transducers dozens of times. It is flush mounted to the bottom edge of the boat's hull. The epoxy is needed as at high speeds water is caught up and sprays out from the sides of the board.

The old cedar strip planked 14 foot wooden boats always had the motor taken off on any road towing. The motor was stored in the trunk of the car.

Off shore wind power means revenue to the state while thousands of property and townships see the revenues from wind power turbines as game changers to their tax rates.

Bow and Stern Marine has a bracket with remote electric steering on it. Great for single handed fishing.

Take the time to search out trolling motor steering and throttle control to make an informed decision on your purchase. There are several types out there available. Also there are videos on installation you may want to learn from.

Panther makes an electric steering control that is remotely operated from any where in the boat. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

There is a kicker bracket that has a remote steering motor on it. The control is a hand held fob where when you are fishing alone you can stand in the stern area, handle your lines and steer your boat. It is best to operate down wind.

An up welling of bottom lake water. The physical property of water is it becomes denser or heavier around thirty nine degrees F. That is why ice rises to the surface as it becomes colder and fish do not freeze under the ice. An offshore wind blows the cold surface water away and the bottom water rises to the surface. In summer conditions the colder bottom water rises to the surface during off shore wind events. Ice fishing in Lake Ontario bays is dangerous as the warmer bottom water can rise up and melt the ice from below also.

Lake Superior remains eight inches above average levels now. Last year at this time it was thirteen inches above average level. This is not really good news for Lake Ontario levels yet. With maximum flow out of Lake Ontario it takes a week to drop things a total of one inch. If you want the lake to drop thirty six inches, it will be Thanksgiving to be normal unless the snow melt and rain waters are higher. Be prepared for the same conditions again this year.

I used red wood for the boards, does not rot in water. With toilet base screws inserted in the top for the spreader bars and wing nuts, i can collapse the boards to take up less space in the boat. The base screws have a screw thread on one end for inserting in the board and machine threads on the other end for tightening the spreader bars.